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Thursday, May 18 7:05pm ET
After almost a 3-hour wait, umps call game | |||||
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CLEVELAND (AP) -- After sloshing through four innings then waiting 2 hours, 37 minutes through a delay Thursday night, the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians were rained out. No makeup date was announced. The Tigers return to Cleveland on June 23 for a four-game series. Detroit was leading 5-0 when the game was delayed in the middle of the fourth inning at 8:33 p.m. ET. The rain barely let up, but umpire crew chief Jim McKean still waited until 11:10 before finally calling it. It's the just the kind of luck the Tigers have been having all year. Detroit, whose 12-25 record is baseball's worst, was leading Kansas City 3-0 on May 9 and had another possible win rained out after three innings. And Detroit, just 7-32 at Jacobs Field since 1994, was finally catching the Indians on a bad day. Cleveland had to place three pitchers -- starters Jaret Wright and Charles Nagy and reliever Ricardo Rincon -- on the 15-day disabled list Thursday. Scott Sanders, recalled earlier in the day from Triple-A Buffalo, started for Cleveland and gave up back-to-back homers in the first to Luis Polonia and Gregg Jefferies before being pulled with two outs in the second. Polonia was 3-for-3 through three innings. The Indians open a three-game series on Friday against the New York Yankees while the Tigers go to Boston for three games. Notes: Cleveland manager Charlie Manuel, back for his first game since May 5 after undergoing colon surgery, wasn't going to spend any time feeling sorry for the Indians. "Whatever we've got, we've got," he said of their injury mess. "I'm not going to sit here and cry and moan. You've got to play with what you've got. Do we like it? No." ... Before the game was called, the consecutive homers by Polonia and Jefferies were the first to open a game by the Tigers since Aug. 5, 1986, when they did it against Cleveland. ... Detroit's Deivi Cruz hit a foul ball in the third inning that broke a broadcast booth window behind home plate. | ALSO SEE Baseball Scoreboard Detroit Clubhouse Cleveland Clubhouse RECAPS Detroit 0 Cleveland 0
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